All feel the assault of Fortune's fickle gale: Art, empire, earth itself to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd : And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd. A Visit to Australia and Its Gold Regions - Page 95by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1853 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...to change are dootn'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale ; And gulphs the mountains mighty mass entomb'd ; And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd. Beattie. The sea now separates Britain2 from France ; Sicily from Italy ; Terra-del-Fuego from Patagonia... | |
| Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1828 - 614 pages
...fiction of fancy, that " Earthquakes have raised to heaven the lowly val«, And gulphs the mountains mighty mass entomb'd, And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents have bloom'd." Beattie. Yet whatever proofs we may have of such changes, they are so remote from our present experience,... | |
| John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...itself to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have rais'd toheav'n the humble vale, And gulfs the mountains mighty mass entomb'd, And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents have bloom'd I But sure to foreign climes we need not range, Nor search the ancient records of our race ; To learn... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale ; And gulphs the mountains' mighty mass entomb'd ; And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd. The sea now separates Britain from France ; Sicily from Italy ; Terra-del-Fuego from Patagonia ; Sumatra... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...to charjge are doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale; And gulfs the mountains' mighty mass entomb'd ; And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd." The sea now separates Britain from France ; Sicily from Italy ; Terra-del-Fuego from Patagonia ; R9 Sumatra... | |
| Hamilton Lanphere Smith - Astronomy - 1848 - 336 pages
...earth itself, are doom'd; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale; And gulfs the mountains' mighty mass entomb'd; And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents have bloom'd." Seattle. IN the present chapter we shall briefly describe some of those remarkable convulsions which... | |
| Henry Welsford - English language - 1848 - 498 pages
...itself to change are doom'd. Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain mighty mass entomb'd; And where the Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloom'd. BEATTIE'S Minstrel. vii. It is time, however, to dismiss these geological speculations, which have,... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 648 pages
...silent dale, All feel the assault of Fortune's fickle gale : Art, empire, earth itself to change aro doom'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble...examination of rocks found associated with it .at Hlawarra, and on the Hunter, and from their fossil contents, it would appear to be contemporaneous... | |
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